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Alcott, Benjamin – Research in Higher Education, 2017
Theory suggests that teacher encouragement can aid students' educational progress, but there are not yet quantitative inferential studies that assess its longer-term impact. With data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), I use propensity-score matching to investigate whether encouragement influences the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Positive Reinforcement, Teacher Influence
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Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Finch, W. Holmes – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2015
The purpose of the current study was to examine how maternal reading strategies and book type would impact on toddlers' responsiveness as they became familiar with three books. Eleven mothers and their 2- to 3-year-olds were recorded reading the same set of three different books (i.e. word book, narrative book and no narrative book) on four…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Books, Mothers, Toddlers